Abstract
The impact of attendance by infectious disease specialists (IDS) on hospitalised adults with community-acquired infection was assessed by studying 402 consecutive febrile adults who were admitted randomly to either of two internal medicine wards over a 4-month period and given intravenous antibiotics. In ward 1, patients were attended by IDS, whereas those in ward 2 were attended by physicians from other specialties. In total, 160 patients were treated in ward 1 and 242 in ward 2 (median age 66 years; 49% male). The case-mix was comparable. Only 39% of ward 2 patients underwent minimal fever diagnostic tests compared to 82% in ward 1 (p < 0.001). Ward 1 and 2 patients received 188 and 315 antibiotic courses, respectively, of which 32% and 20% required approval from IDS (p 0.003). Patients in ward 1 were more likely to receive ceftriaxone (7.5% vs. 2%; p 0.002), erythromycin (7% vs. 1.5%; p 0.002) and cefuroxime (48% vs. 26%; p < 0.0001), but were less likely to receive amoxycillin-clavulanate (8% vs. 28%; p < 0.0001). The mean durations of therapy were 3.6 and 3.2 days (not significant), and therapy was deemed to be completely appropriate in 55.5% and 43% of cases, respectively (p 0.012). The crude mortality rates were 6.3% and...Continue Reading
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